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Question 2 of 3: We’ve all done it - remember that time (or times) you sent an email without an attachment? Oh, the embarrassment, the shame! With Outlook MailTips in Microsoft Office 2013, you’ll be reminded if your attachment is missing before you hit "Send" - and especially important when you're quickly sending docs on-the-go from your Dell Latitude 10 tablet.

"The most embarrassing email I ever sent was __________, and it resulted in _________."

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The most embarrassing email I ever sent was an email to the regional VPs, senior VPs and several department heads without the report attached!, and it resulted in about a dozen replies saying "no report attached".

Addressed to the wrong person, and it resulted in an awful lot of explanation regarding matters I never intended to disclose to this person. I knew it was wrong right after I sent it, too late to stop.

The most embarrassing email I ever sent was stating the product is NOT ready for testing, and it resulted in the product not being tested for a half of day and finding out I should have said NOW instead of NOT.

The most embarrassing email I ever sent involved pasting a private comment I sent to my significant other into a business email, thinking I was pasting relevant business text. The result was a lot of replies verifying how much love there was in my company for me (grin). It lasted about a week. Check your pastes!

The most embarrassing email I ever sent was when I misspelled the word “incompetence” and spell-check corrected it to “incontinence”, and it resulted in my coworkers making fun of me for quite some time.

Forwarding an email string to a co-worker to see if she had an opinion on a problem that a bunch of people were floating around. Somewhere in the string of emails someone had a negative comment about the person I forwarded to.
She quit.

The most embarrassing e-mail I ever sent was to a listserve of school district employees announcing the time and place a training was to take place and it resulted in over a hundred people showing up to the wrong location.

The most embarrassing email I ever sent was forwarding a vendor's email to the CEO who replied to all with a profanity-laced response about the vendor and it resulted in immediate resolution of all issues with that vendor.

What I thought was a forward to my boss complaining about a customer being a "jackass." As it turned out, it was a reply...!! The result was my being quite a bit more mindful of my comments and actions! It was quite humbling. Thank goodness the customer had somewhat of a sense of humor!

The most embarrassing email I ever sent was meant to be a joke email to a coworker calling out a client for their rude behavior. Instead of spoofing the email to ".con", I accidentally sent the mail to the client, and it resulted in being way more honest than I should have been.

The most embarrassing email I ever sent was early in my first job, when i was frustrated with a manager who was being unreasonable/ a jerk.. I mentioned my frustrations to another manager in an e-mail. That e-mail was then forwarded to the frustrating manager, along with some unrelated comments about the project. The result was some very awkward meetings until I quit that job.

The moral is, don't ever e-mail something unless you are OK with the whole world knowing. If it's truly confidential, say it in person.

I mistakenly sent a nude lower body shot of myself, to a female friend instead of the documents she wanted. But, the strange thing was she thought it was a picture of her body part, until I explained it wasn't and it was intended for someone else.

I sent an email to my boss mocking a terrible trouble ticket that was entered by a member of the support team, and by mistake copied the support group! I had to have a meeting with the support group to apologize for the email.

A rant about our accounting software company wanting us to upgrade their bad buggy software again, but instead of sending it to our CFO, I mistakenly sent it as a reply back to the sender. They sent it back and said that I must have sent it to them by mistake. Uh oh - red face moment. Our CFO thought it was funny because she agreed with my rant.

Learned my lesson from instant messaging and typically very careful before hitting SEND on any email. Worst I have ever done is forget to add an attachment, and the "fall out" was the person having to request it again from me. Not embarassing at all, really.

The most embarrassing email I ever sent was jokingly questioning a co-worker's sick day but accidentally clicking Reply All instead of Reply, and it resulted in a little awkwardness for a few days, but nothing else. Thankfully.

My resume or at least I thought I sent my resume, I had attached my tax return instead and it resulted in me not getting a job. My friend had talked me up to this guy she knew who was hiring and basically the job was mine I just had to go through the formalities. I was actually told that since I would be in a position to be sending out emails with important company info, he was not willing to risk it despite knowing it was an honest mistake. I have never made an attachment mistake again and it has been years.

The most embarrassing email I ever sent was what I thought was a Project Plan to the Executive Staff but in reality was a menu for a Cub Scout campout that I had been working on, and it resulted in multiple suggestions from the President of the company.

The most embarrassing email I ever sent was sent to my wife asking to make an apointment with a phlebotomy specialist, I did not type it correctly and wound up asking for an apointment with a lobotomy specialist, and it resulted in her agreeing.

The most embarrassing email I ever sent was an email about "Help for women living in the street for which authorities wanted to close only one refuge" to the professional email address of my colleague. He didn't want to get such email, at his professional address, and it resulted in a friendly break.

I was very happy after building a very complex report in BI publisher of Payslips generation.
It resulted in the creation of most embarrassing e-mail saying
"PFA the payslip containing each and every component of salary of CMD"
and I sent it to CMD instead of my manager.
Got a reply from CMD saying.."Don't disclose my salary publicly."

sending a personal Email to one of the owners of the company where his name is almost simiar to an employee with personal relation with and Since I'm in IT I asked the administrator to Kill this Email from His Inbox before reading and I was able to protect my face of not let him reading this special disaster Email.

The most embarrassing email I ever sent was when I thought I was forwarding something to my sister with my own snarky comments added and instead I replied to the email and really hurt a friend's feelings.

The most embarrassing email I ever sent was actually sending three emails to a large distribution list. This resulted in two dozen people replying to "ALL" telling me to stop sending emails to them. This touched off a follow-up email storm of people saying stop replying to all and so forth. Emails were still flying 4 days later.

It's embarrassing now to to think about, but was one of those ill advised and poorly thought out attempts at being kind of catty and unkind to somebody (by means of teasing about them to somebody else) and suffice to say that I thought I had sent a forward, but it was actually a reply and the unintended recipient got their feelings hurt. Always good to remember mom's adage that if you can't think of something nice to say about somebody you should not say anything at all.

The most embarrassing email I ever sent was to my direct boss about something the COO said- but accidentally sent it directly to the COO, and it resulted in luckily--- a lifelong "joke" where he reminds me of what was said in the email and uses it to "prod" me weekly (it could have been so much worse!).

The most embarrassing email I ever sent was a private criticism of another team’s ability to perform core tasks which then showed up a couple weeks later embedded in another mail trail, and it resulted in me learning a valuable lesson about what to commit to electronic form.

Sent an email to an individual who's name was Roberta, cc'in a bunch of others. Her nickname is Bobbie and spell check changed it to Boobie - which I didn't catch. Everyone got a kick out of it - even Bobbie.

"The most embarrassing email I ever sent was when I emailed my wife who was out of town that I got sex in the mail , and it resulted in me having to call her to explain what I meant. I abbreviated 'socks' to 'sox' and autocorrect changed it to 'sex'."

The most embarrasing email I ever sent was for a contest where it stated that it was a drawing for three $1000 gift cards but the official rules stated that it was for three $100 gift cards. This resulted in a lot of confusion and dissatisfaction to the winners.

The most embarrassing email I ever sent was a promotion letter for one of my direct reports, but somehow I sent the attchment letter to the wrong direct report.
It resulted in me promoting both of them, they were equally talented and it was the right thing to do, I should have just promoted both of them from the get go. Lesson learned, be careful what you email out!
Double and Triple check, there is nothing wrong with this method.

Reply all that captured those pesky distribution lists that included a department wide list and I was ranting about someone which should NOT have been in email or even remotely replied too. I do much more single replies/deleting of emails and vent verbally to my cats since then!

While testing workflow in a system I was working on, I loaded the mailbox of the CEO of our company with over 5000 email. Lessons learned: Always double check the routing profiles for test users when testing anything that sends email!!

The most embarrassing email I ever sent was to send it to wrong persons, and it resulted in responses that the email was sent to the wrong recipients. I knew I sent it to the wrong persons and tried to recall it but some of them had already opened the email.

The most embarrassing email I ever sent was to all of the women in my division - some 200-300 - in an attempt to initiate some kind of charitable effort, I forget exactly what now. It resulted in a request from my 3-levels-up boss asking me not to do that. At least she was reasonably nice about it!

The most embarrassing email I ever sent was about a high-level report sent to several senior management people with the attachment missing, and it resulted in a major scramble to recall and resend the message with attachment!."

Oh, that is easy...The most embarrassing email I ever sent was the time I was trying to share my Christian faith with someone and was trying to lead them to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, when somehow when I replied, I had a "global" selection on the mailbox, and the email went to EVERYBODY, corporate-wide email...which included the president, out of state. He was very forgiving...I sent him an email apologizing for my error, and it turned out he was a Christian, and he just said "these things happen" ...but stop evangelizing on company time. I promised I would. LOL (though I did get some responses that were not quite so benevolent)

I sent a project update email to a mass email group at work, intending to update end-users on some critical issues we were working to resolve. I had been instructed not to send those types of messages to a particular VP in our organization because she often used it as a way to reply all with her frustrations and doubts. I did not realize she was part of the email group, and of course she replied all and copied my division's Senior VP to voice her frustration. It didn't help bolster our image with end-users in her department, who were quickly losing confidence in our ability to solve their problem and who were increasingly not cooperating fully with our efforts to solve the issues.

Most embarrassing email I sent was a "personal goals" email I meant to send to myself at work so I could review it later at home. I accidently sent it all on my contact list at work. Needless to say, my boss was surprised by actually glad I HAD goals!!!! Both embarrassing and funny at same time! Worked out okay.

I sent an email to several senior people at the Bank of Canada stating “We have to postpone the meeting again. I apologize for the repeated incontinence.” (Damn spell checker) And it resulted in replies like “Haha”, “I know a good urologist” and “Can we ever DEPEND on you?”…

"The most embarrassing email I ever sent was an e-mail looking for a job closer to home that went to a listserv that included my boss and co-workers as subscribers, and it resulted in getting a call from someone else on the list about a job and lots of ribbing from my co-workers.

The most embarrassing emails which "appeared to be sent by me" actually occurred when my personal email account was "spoofed" by some disreputable person(s) and emails were then sent to many email addresses, some of which did not exist, which resulted in many "bounced" email messages being sent to my personal email provider, who then decided to permanently inactivated my spoofed email account which forced me to create a new email account ."

Sent an email with a misspelled word, which was the Director of Development's name. Evidently the misspelled name means snake in hindu, so essentially I had called him a snake without meaning to. He alluded to it in a manager's meeting and I was the laughingstock of the division.

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